2020 - banish the clutter

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS” - MINIMUM 30 MINUTE BURSTS OF ACTIVITY AT LEAST TWICE EVERY DAY

2. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT

3. I WILL ENDEAVOUR TO BE NICE TO EVERYONE & TRY TO SEE THE FUNNY OR PECULIAR SIDE TO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
4. DAY TO DAY DECLUTTERING WILL

Dinner was delicious 😋 Washing up done.

1507 - 1510 Kitchen recycling, drinks cans, 2 plastic bottles - Recycled
1510 Kitchen detritus - Binned

Only 5 more to go & I can award myself another gold star 🥳

Brilliant work winspiration 👏 Please note that you NEVER have to apologise for a long post 😉 it is lovely to hear from you 🙂 Had to laugh 🤭 at the shredding rather than flour 
BUT remember the difficulty we all had sourcing flour for baking 😉 🤭 

Ah, a teensy garden boazu but 2 allotment plots makes all the difference 😉 Can you set up movement activated lights at the allotment & possibly a machine gun tower 🤭🤣😂 only joking 🙃 sort of 😉

Good work TC77 👏 I love the idea of chipping away at the clutter - carving out clear space 🙂

BE KIND. STAY SAFE. BREAK THE CHAIN. SAVE LIVES.

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅

1510/2020

bit_by_bit

Hi All.

Thankyou for the two ⭐️ ⭐️ Mrs SD. I really appreciated them. 
Yesterday DH and DD went into town kindly taking two more bags to the CS for me. One of books and the other DVDs. this equates to 56/100.
More stuff has been given for me to take to the refugee collection from a friend. It is still in the car as I didn't get up in time to take it yesterday. It willl be going next Saturday and will not be coming into the house.
I am working on the craft room/ dumping ground today.
It got filled up when I cleared out the front bedroom plus working at the CS I pick up books and stuff to sell. Dangerous I know.
On the plus side of selling is that  I am making inroads into some financial goals and decluttering pleny of packaging material that comes into the house with DH and DD. A percentage of what I make will go back to the CS at the end of the year as a donation.
I want to make a proper storage space for  things to sell plus get rid of more fabric which, as pretty and colourful as it is, I won't use.
I have a set of boxes ready for processsing to the CS, the refugees, Christmas boxes and a few other places and people.
Have a lovely day everyone. 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS” - MINIMUM 30 MINUTE BURSTS OF ACTIVITY AT LEAST TWICE EVERY DAY

2. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT

3. I WILL ENDEAVOUR TO BE NICE TO EVERYONE & TRY TO SEE THE FUNNY OR PECULIAR SIDE TO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
4. DAY TO DAY DECLUTTERING WILL

Oops 🙊 didn’t post yesterday 😔 I am in rather a funk atm - I am a naturally lazy person & seize on any chance to do nothing but veg out in front of the TV and/or play AB2 😔 coupled with a huge list of things I want to do or feel I should do for my own peace of mind. I did read the following (on “Seeking a simpler, less frantic and much simpler way of life” thread)

greenbee said:

People may find this article helpful https://elemental-medium-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/elemental.medium.com/amp/p/de285d542f4c

So I will be allocating a notebook to setting myself a timetable (lots of laziness built in of course 😉) & WILL START TOMORROW 🙂

Yesterday DH & I did some gardening - topped up the compost in the potato plant containers, harvested the last full grown potato plants (disappointing as only 295g 🙁), harvested the tomatoes (513g) & then thinned out the foliage on the tomato plants. DH filled the bird feeders + reseeded another portion of the back ‘lawn’ & covered with an hm cage 👏 DSis did a wash load - partially line dried but finished off in td as the weather was rather mixed ☹️ Dinner was sizzle steaks, oven chips, cooked tomatoes (some of which were hg), dry-fried OddBox mushrooms & frozen peas + DH made a small amount of gravy by deglazing the frying pan. Watched a lovely film Finding Your Feet with Imelda Staunton - very upbeat if a little sad. Well worth a watch 🙂

Sunday is a very mixed day - strong sunshine combined with dark threatening clouds & a stiff breeze 🙁 Chatted to ndn - old lodger who has returned after being at home during lockdown. He has just affixed a heavy chain so that he can leave his bicycle outside & asked if it was OK that bike will be leaning against our wall 👏 Permission granted 🙂

1511 - 1512 Cardboard box, air pocket packaging - Recycled
1513 - 1514 Kitchen detritus, living room detritus - Binned

You are welcome bit_by_bit 🙂 You are an inspiration to us all & your generosity appears to know no bounds. I love reading about all your charitable donations & I am in awe. Please keep up the good work - your attitude makes the world a kinder place. Are you related to Jacinda Ardern?

Anyway I shall toddle off now - finish watching Gandhi & sort my notebook out 😉

BE KIND. STAY SAFE. BREAK THE CHAIN. SAVE LIVES.

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅

1514/2020

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS” - MINIMUM 30 MINUTE BURSTS OF ACTIVITY AT LEAST TWICE EVERY DAY

2. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT

3. I WILL ENDEAVOUR TO BE NICE TO EVERYONE & TRY TO SEE THE FUNNY OR PECULIAR SIDE TO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
4. DAY TO DAY DECLUTTERING WILL

I have had a little burst of activity - trying to get myself out of sloth mode 😉
Finally put away the washing 😉, watered the indoor plants, made the bed, washed down bedroom windowsill, sorted out the food for tonight. Had a nice chat to Mr & Mrs G - apparently the hg tomatoes, kale & chard I gave them were very tasty. Another load of apples from their tree is ready for picking so I will be visiting in a few days for another bagful. DH popped out to get a sliced loaf & some biccies 😔

See you later

BE KIND. STAY SAFE. BREAK THE CHAIN. SAVE LIVES.

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️  🏅

1514/2020

TC77

A few things out
1619 - 1625 CS bag of rags and goods taken including 5 soft toys of DD2
1626 - 1627 DD1 old bed collected by freecyler and all rubbish behind binned ( can now tackle rest of room)
1628- 1629 bags of food delivered to DD1 as friend staying with her and both broke
Couple of things sold on fbay but will count when out of the house.
Hope everyone's week starts well x

stellata

I've been in a bit of a dip the last few weeks with one thing and another but the good news is that I've got work again and it looks good for the next 6 months. Bit of a relief. Been doing well selling  too, have decluttered a table I don't use and some other bits and made enough money for the day to day things without using the bank account. There's only me so that's not too hard but it's made a real difference and now I feel I can relax a bit moneywise for a week or 2 when I get paid (Friday woohoo!). Going in to town later today to pick up some veg from friends garden (friend is away) and will get something nice from T*sco for dinner too I think.

nannywindow

Hello all, been missing a while as my mojo had left the planet, let alone the building . Anyway today I can report a bag of shed debris has finally found it's way into the bin. It's mostly small bits of wood and shavings as we are not allowed to light fires around here, not that some people take any notice of that ! Other than daily recycling, binning etc nothing else has been done, I hang my head in shame as everyone else seems to be doing so well.

Look after yourselves and happy decluttering.

nan

Willowtree222

One skip full today. Mostly garden things but the old ensuite as well. All gone. 

Woohoo 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

1. WRITE AND USE “TO DO LISTS” - MINIMUM 30 MINUTE BURSTS OF ACTIVITY AT LEAST TWICE EVERY DAY

2. KITCHEN WILL BE LEFT CLEAN & TIDY EVERY NIGHT

3. I WILL ENDEAVOUR TO BE NICE TO EVERYONE & TRY TO SEE THE FUNNY OR PECULIAR SIDE TO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
4. DAY TO DAY DECLUTTERING WILL CONTINUE

Sunday’s dinner was chicken fried in butter with boiled potatoes & corn on the cob. 

Started off next hm soup.

Monday has been a mixed day - some sunshine in the a.m.  but then rained on & off most of the p.m. - yippee no watering required 🥳 Cooked the hm soup but still needs to be zizzed & taste tested. Did some telephone banking but forgot one important task - so another call on Tuesday. DH & I managed to mainly avoid the rain when we went out on the motorbike. Nipped into MrS for a small shop, filled up with petrol then visited BandQ for vegetable seeds & 6’ canes. Rather awkward to carry back but did manage 👏 Got back & did more paperwork which I also continued after dinner. Whilst I was cooking dinner MrG came round with a carrier bag full of hg apples which I will sort out Tuesday.
Dinner was boned lamb shoulder, roast potatoes, boiled farm shop carrots, stir fried kale, stir fried chard with bacon bits, roasted beetroot, radishes & courgette from the Veg box, roasted tomatoes & sweet potato. Dee-licious 🤤

1515 - 1520 Newspaper, kitchen recycling, cardboard packaging, drinks cans, paperwork, glass jar & metal lid - Recycled (Yippee another Gold Star ⭐️)
1521 - 1523 Plastic packaging, 0.5” shredding, kitchen detritus - Binned

Great work TC77 👏 Shame about the bags 🙁 had they been used more than once?

Congratulations on the new job stellata 🥳 must be a great relief & 6 months will take you into 2021 which will be a better year hopefully 🤞 (well done on the selling & leaving your savings intact 👏 )

Oh dear nannywindow ☹️ mojo leaving the planet 😜 but at least it has returned now 👍 Do you have a chiminea? By the way - naughty, naughty (insert wagging finger) you have absolutely no reason to hang your head in shame - you have been doing daily recycling & binning thereby keeping clutter from building up 👏👏 Now you are back with some mojo, so maybe start small - a drawer, small box or maybe even check the wardrobe.

Wow Nicnak - excellent work 👏 A whole skip full 👏 I am impressed enough to award you a Gold Star ⭐️ - congrats 🥳 

BE KIND. STAY SAFE. BREAK THE CHAIN. SAVE LIVES.

MrsSD ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️   🏅

1523/2020

Willowtree222

Thanks for the gold star! I just feel relieved that a lot more stuff has now left the house. It is starting to feel a lot more settled. x